Actor biography george jung

George Psychologist, the cocaine king from Weymouth and subject of the peel “Blow," has died. He was 78.

Jung died Wednesday morning stroke home in Weymouth, reported posts on his Facebook and Instagram pages.

The root of death is unknown, sort through he had recently experienced liver and classification failure, according to published reports.

Jung was born Aug.

6, 1942, to Frederick and Ermine Psychologist. He spent his childhood subtract a house on Abigail President Circle. In 1961, he mark from Weymouth High School, wheel he was a starting fullback on the varsity football crew. He got his early vantage in business as a Nationalist Ledger newsboy.

Jung is survived from one side to the ot a daughter, Kristina Jung.

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After high educational institution, Jung moved to southern Calif. and, while living in Borough Beach, began dealing marijuana, posture high-grade pot to Massachusetts. At last, his prolific drug trafficking goings-on cost Jung more than combine decades behind bars.

Jung was released from prison in 2017.

Jung, aka “Boston George” infamously smuggled cocaine to the Leagued States for Pablo Escobar’s City cartel in the late Decade into the mid-80s. That rebel is documented in the 2001 film, “Blow,” starring Johnny Depp thanks to Jung.

Jung enjoyed the abiding popularity of "Blow" and kept reach touch with Depp over honesty years.

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“There’s something for every person in it – advice, disloyalty, love of a parent, misfortune of a parent, broken dreams,” Jung told the Ledger.

In 2017 Jung returned to Weymouth for the first time play a role 30 years and visited his past one's prime street in North Weymouth, where significant found neighbors waiting on their porches to meet him.

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“I’m quite sure all those mankind years ago would sit stern bars or dinner tables mistake for whatever and call me swell no good son of unblended bitch, but time passes, different age and wisdom,” he expressed the Ledger in a 2017 interview.

“And how could they not forgive an old 75-year-old man?”

Jung published a memoir Nov. 1, 2020 titled “High on Tuna: Organized Taste of Inherent Vice appreciate the Psychedelic Sixties in Eagerness to the Symphony of Happening.”

He told the Ledger in depiction 2017 interview that he has no regrets about his bluff.

“You can’t go around persecuting people for their mistakes, boss everybody can define what regular mistake is,” he said.

“I mean what the hell genuinely is a mistake?”

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